Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:20:35PM -0500, Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I get your point .. I asked for this behavior .. so I shouldn't complain about it. That may or may not be true, but my point was that you could solve your problem by removing that line. :-) Daniel

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Friday 14 November 2008, Jeff Soules [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:29:06PM -0600, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Chris Jones wrote: I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this list require that I provide a PGP passphrase .. whatever that may be. I'm sure someone more

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:44:47AM -0500, Henning Follmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:53:46AM -0500, Jeff Soules wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:44 AM, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean it is more likely that any one drive in the array fails when

[ANNOUNCE] aptitude 0.5.0 released

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi, everyone, I've finally released aptitude 0.5.0 into experimental. The main change here is that it's the first release containing the GTK+ frontend. You can find a longer description of the release (with a screenshot) here:

Re: That would be... (was Re: cannot install all updates)

2008-10-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:23:48AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:53:34 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/08 10:23, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: [snip] I'm running testing as well and I basically do the same thing

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:54:05AM -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Thierry Chatelet wrote: I dont want to start a church war, but try try aptitude why-not package Bless you ;) Anyhow, I tried that with hal, and it just told me that hal did not have to be removed.

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:53:04AM -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Ron Johnson wrote: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a libcamel1.2-8 libgtkhtml3.8-15 cupsys-common libgail17 libc-client2002edebian

Re: Grub dilemma

2008-10-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:21:52PM +0200, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: 2008/10/18 Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am not installing Ubuntu - it's already installed on hda3. I say again I want to install another Linux on hda3 which uses Lilo...not Grub. I'm asking

Re: Grub dilemma

2008-10-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 01:28:11PM -0400, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Daniel Burrows wrote: Also, it sounds like grub looks for its menu.lst on hda3. If that's the case, you'll want to change it before you wipe hda3 to install a new distribution. Daniel OK

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:50:02AM -0400, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I can see a badly-behaved Flash plugin killing Firefox/Iceweasel. I can even see it freezing X. How can it freeze the script running in the VT? It's a really solid freeze--not only do ctrl-alt-f1 and

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:23:01PM -0400, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: His (Christian's) comments were This has nothing to do with aptitude. Then he goes on to talk about update-grub and that I asked for it. No. I didn't ask for it. I remember that situation enough to

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:56:57PM -0400, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sunday 12 October 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: Regardless, I don't see his mail as being at all impolite; just a little terse. I'll ask you to read in this context: 1) You know very little about

Re: Upgrading after a fresh install.

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:07:15PM -0400, Daryl Styrk [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I've just completed a fresh install of Lenny. I am trying to understand why some update are not showing in aptitude. The normal aptitude update/safe-upgrade/full-upgrade shows none. Are they shown

Re: How do I prevent Grub from getting automagically updated?

2008-10-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:09:28PM +0200, Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Every time a new kernel gets installed, my menu.lst gets updated. Problem is, that it always points to the wrong hard drive. Therefor I would like to stop Grub from updating automagically. How can I achieve

Re: sources.list to work with debians on a Fedora machine !

2008-10-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:12:20PM -0700, NewDeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I am reposting this message and drawing attention to the fact that I am trying to do the apt-get and dpkg magic on a fedora box ! I have installed dpkg and apt on my Fedora machine. What should my

Re: Dealing with obsolete packages

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 08:29:41AM +0100, Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I know that aptitude gui interface can show all those obsolete packages by sections. my questions are: - how can I tag all obsolete packages in a section, then remove them? - how can I get such

Re: Dealing with obsolete packages

2008-10-01 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:36:29PM +, T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:44:26 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: or just push - on the header of the group if you're using the curses interface. That's what I thought. I press - on the spot marked

Re: transitivity of login

2008-09-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:35:21AM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: How can this be permitted? It must be configurable, but where? Is it in sshd; is there a system variable; is it something else? Just to add what is implicit in the other responses you got: this

Re: dd|tar backup over ssh fails, could someone give me a pointer.

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:04:46PM +1000, Adrian Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I am trying to do a complete backup of a drive in a brand new laptop to eventually wipe and install linux. I'm trying to use the command: tar -cjf - `dd if=/dev/sda bs=512` | ssh otherhost.com 'cat

Re: Problem on running aptitude/apt-get upgrade

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 08:07:48AM +1000, linuksos [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: This problem can happen if you mix repositories from different sources. For example you use Ubuntu sources or Debian testing ( leeny ) or sid versions. However, If you said its fresh install this could be

Re: Problem on running aptitude/apt-get upgrade

2008-09-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:11:41AM +0800, Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (= 1.12.2), libc6 (= 2.3.6-6), libcairo2 (= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (1 2.12.0), libpango1.0-0 (= 1.14.8), libx11-6, libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.8.20-7) Well, I don't know why it happened, but

Re: error in script

2008-09-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:59:46AM +0200, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: L.V.Gandhi: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat ~/stock/flstock.csv |cut -s -d, -f2|sort ~/stock/fliquidstocks.txt Useless use of cat. :) How it

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:17:26PM +0800, Justin Jereza [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The following packages will be REMOVED: telnet{a} - also purge instead of removing. I.e., nothing like APT::Get::Purge. The undocumented --purge doesn't work like apt-get's. One must follow with a

Re: Is this bug in aptitude?

2008-08-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 07:10:38PM +0100, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Daniel Burrows wrote: So why does aptitude want to remove package b in the first place? [snip] Aptitude tries to remove automatically installed packages. If you manually install them, aptitude won't

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:53:56AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I find no way in aptitude to # aptitude install telnet-ssl Reading package lists... Done - Get rid of these messages, and The following NEW packages will be installed: telnet-ssl The following packages will be

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 12:05:10PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Yes, I'm saying I want a {p} but all I can get is an {a}. This is bug 486454 apparently, which is quite easy to reproduce by installing back and forth telnet and telnet-ssl back and forth back and forth. I never

Re: Is this bug in aptitude?

2008-08-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:02:08AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Rob Gom wrote: Hello, is this bug in aptitude when I try: $ aptitude install a [...] b will be removed $ aptitude install a b [...] b will be removed [OK] $ aptitude install b

Re: [debian-user] Re: Wikipedia

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:00:13AM -0600, Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I hope this message is not OT and forgive my ignorance but I received a very informative response to some of my questions and several people recommended that I make better use of everyones time by first

Re: Install git package on Debian, could not run git

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:32:29PM +1000, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 8/20/08, Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the message you post, it appears that there are two different programs that might be called 'git' on your system: 10:22:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: aptitude purge

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:33:19PM +0200, Tammo Schuelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Is there a way to remove these entries from the apt database without actually purging the packages, which would probably remove the newer version including its configuration? No. Daniel --

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:19:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Enter a tool which made mutt viable for my needs, mbsync (debian package - isync). It is a tool which syncronizes a local Maildir folder with a remote imap folder. In essence it is a local imap

Re: aptitude segfault on UML

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:23:33PM -0500, Randall Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I installed a UML Etch dist as described here: [snip] Any idea what might cause aptitude to segfault. BTW, apt-get works fine. Nope. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:14:43PM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The good news is that if you have a 64-bit processor, the amount of memory you can install is limited only by the amount your motherboard can recognize. Also, memory is super-cheap nowadays. So

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 02:03:57PM -0600, Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [snipped -- please don't repeat long emails if you're just responding to one part] Also, recently, I discovered that a dual or quad CPU board only provides load balancing and not greater speed.

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:46:53PM -0500, Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I accidentally made all the files on my system owned by me and am trying to get them back to where they should be. Is there any utility that at least gets all the system files back to

Re: help me to solve this problem ......

2008-08-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:30:50PM +0530, HARIDAS N [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Iam haridas from kerala...   Iam using Debian 4.0 etch as my OS.   My problem is,  installing new packages from the  package manager was repeatedly caught by an error     dpkg: syntax error :unknown

Re: Aptitude hangs machine

2008-08-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11AM -0400, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as it should have. Soon after installation I wanted to

Re: How to find dependency information for a package ?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:00:59PM -0700, NewDeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: See, this is a mystery to me, because I am running the commands and viewing the control file of one single package. Why is the version showing up separately ? You can't use apt-cache to display the control

Re: Which new packages?

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:38:25AM +0200, Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Sometimes when I do 'aptitude update' I see that new packages are available. Is there a log somewhere which will inform me of which new packages are available? This is on testing. But I suspect the

Re: difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:27:23PM -0700, NewDeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I am a Debian newbie and was wondering what is the difference between the NEW and Extra packages that are installed when dpkg -i is used. I don't recognize those offhand as dpkg output. Could you paste a

Re: How to find dependency information for a package ?

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:45:41PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:09:56PM -0700, NewDeb wrote: 3) apt-get --download-only install tomcat5 (thinking that this will be the raw list of files which dpkg tries to install) this will

Re: difference between NEW and Extra packages in dpkg install

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:25:39PM -0700, NewDeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Here is the output with apt-get install (albeit with --download-only. You get the same output if you were to go ahead with the real install) I am trying to understand the difference between the NEW packages

Re: How to find dependency information for a package ?

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:05:09PM -0700, NewDeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Well, should'nt 'apt-cache depends' and the control file show the same dependency info ? Here is the inconsistency I am seeing. Please let me know if I am interpreting this wrongly - Control File

Re: APT recommendations/suggestions not obvious

2008-08-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 07:35:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: TTBOMK, neither apt/aptitude/synaptics stores explicit this is why package A is recommended data. If it did, I'd immediately convert to that app. The problem is that this information isn't stored

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:11:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: - I would like to be able to declare favorites among packages, to guide conflict resolution. I was actually working on this a few weeks ago but I got sidetracked by the fact that the GTK+ interface

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: It's a bug. If aptitude safe-upgrade can't find any packages that are _not_ on hold (or forbidden), it will try to upgrade packages that you don't want to. See http://bugs.debian.org/466228. That

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 06:17:47PM +0100, Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:13:33 -0700, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: It's a bug. If aptitude

Re: Aptitude oddity

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:56:22AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: No, it'll spew large amounts of debugging information to your terminal which you can then paste into a mail to me. :-) Aha. The aptitude resolver isn't touching those packages at all, but think

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM +0200, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I've no trouble with either at the command line. The *curses interface is highly non-intuitive (IMO). It, along with dselect, has always struck me as just a little Martian. That's fine in vi or emacs

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: One of my active anti-goals is making aptitude the best package manager after you enter 500 configuration options to enable all

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:12:45AM -0500, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Sadly, I have NEVER used aptitude ncurses. Ever since the early days of Potato, when I tried to use it, I would get completely lost. As smart as I am (however smart that is)

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: aptitude makes it easy to plan the updates How so? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 03:46:28PM +0100, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: That's a fair point. I currently run stable (Lenny) because it seemed to be a good balance between (relatively) up-to-date software that has (mostly) had its bugs worked through. Note that lenny is *not*

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:47:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Quoting Andrew Sackville-West: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:07:27PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:00:44PM -0700, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: aptitude

Re: force aptitude untrusted cli

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:44:56PM +0300, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tuesday 29 July 2008 14:22, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-07-28 22:38 +0200, Shachar Or wrote: Did I say interactiveley? I meant non-interactively. Why do you need to do it non-interactively?

Re: Unable to run snaptic package manager or apt-get

2008-07-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:00:02PM +0300, Young, Loren R SGT NG NG NGB [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I attempted to download Ultimatix and now I am unable to use any of my package managers to install programs. I have tried several apt-get commands and receive the following error

Re: SOLVED was Re: pine help

2008-07-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 06:13:36PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: i tried changing it, but that didn't work, so i just commented the stupid thing out boom, we're back to normal. i have no clue what happened, but it's nice to be able to use lynx

Re: apt-get new package management capability

2008-07-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:36:27PM +0300, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Thu,24.Jul.08, 07:10:15, Daniel Burrows wrote: You do need to run aptitude once to transfer the information. It should move the automatic flags to the apt database and clear them from its

Re: apt-get new package management capability

2008-07-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:12:40AM +0300, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Thu,24.Jul.08, 04:03:17, T o n g wrote: Hi, I remember seeing that apt-get can do orphan packages automatic removal now. Does it need special setup? Package installed in my

Re: resurrecting dead mouse

2008-07-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:32:25AM +0100, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Started my workstation today, logged in, launched startx: mouse was dead, pointer just sat inactive in the middle of the screen. Spent a while searching the debian-user archives, tabbing from link to

Re: Switch-off problem

2008-07-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:46:16AM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Recently my computer devolped a new problem: it sometimes does not switch itself off when I do shutdown -h now. It hangs somewhere during the shutdown procedure, and has to be switched off by means

Re: apt-get/aptitude bustage with gnucash

2008-07-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 09:36:15PM -, Cameron Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have just attempted a dist-upgrade with bost apt-get and aptitude, and both of them want to remove gnucash from my system (sid). This seems to be busted. At the moment there is a new

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:56:37PM -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 07:13 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: [0] I don't drink coffee, but I believe that four or five cups here in Seattle would equal my monthly $20 payment to Slicehost

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:48:36PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Thanks, Daniel, for this helpful information. I just discovered another similar paradox. I tried to get source package for pidgin from backports.org. That repository was explicitly pinned at 500

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:23:25PM +0900, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Daniel... problem is that this is not well documented in visible location. (I mean in manual page.) I filed bug report to apt package on apt_preferences. This NotAutomatic thing should be documented

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:00:09PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 7/16/08, Ron Johnson wrote: An ordinary user might not have resources to have a machine running 24/7. Why not? Because I currently am using the services of an internet service provider who claims

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:21:59PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: main:~# apt-cache policy | grep -i backport 1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/non-free Packages release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=non-free

Re: auto update headers

2008-07-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:30:31AM -0500, Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: why is it that after a round of updates via aptitude i have to go in and install things like linux-headers afterwards? how can i tell it to automatically update them along with the kernel? i

Re: howto find out why dist-upgrade wants to remove a package?

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:50:39AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:45:04AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: ... It may be obsolete, but its replacement causes problems for that plugin, which is no longer supported

Re: howto find out why dist-upgrade wants to remove a package?

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:36:07AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: ... The following packages are BROKEN: ghostscript libaprutil1 ... The following packages have unmet dependencies: ghostscript: Conflicts: gs-common ( 8.62) but 0.3.13 is installed and it is

Re: howto find out why dist-upgrade wants to remove a package?

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 09:45:04AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Daniel Burrows wrote: This isn't present in sid any more, and according to http://bugs.debian.org/476781, it's because it's an obsolete package. I see a bunch of php5 stuff in the archive, maybe

Re: howto find out why dist-upgrade wants to remove a package?

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:43:22AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Funny: when I put php4-mysql on hold aptitude keeps *everything* back! You're right of course, about this being untenable. But the prospect of becoming the plugin maintainer... I don't know. I

Re: howto find out why dist-upgrade wants to remove a package?

2008-07-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:36:15AM +0300, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sun,13.Jul.08, 16:27:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: How do I find out why he wants to remove a package? Try asking aptitude: $ aptitude why package That's unlikely to help, unless they were

Re: aptitude -F %t anomaly

2008-07-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:57:26AM +0300, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Can anyone explain to me why 'aptitude -F %t search ~nwireless-tools', when run in etch, prints only etch-backports and not stable,etch-backports or something similar? I believe %t outputs the archive

Re: aptitude -F %t anomaly

2008-07-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 03:04:44AM +0300, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: If 'candidate' means 'the version that'll be installed by an aptitude upgrade' then this isn't the case because I run aptitude upgrade and this package stays at it's current version. Yeah, from the

Re: apt-get install without starting?

2008-07-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:21:46PM -0700, David Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Mumia W.. wrote: On 07/11/2008 07:26 PM, David Barrett wrote: Is there any way to apt-get install ssh without having it automatically start sshd? Same for lighttpd. Basically, I'm making great

Re: CUPS vs lpd (was Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0)

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:42:52AM +1200, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:47:56AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 07 Jul 2008, Christofer C. Bell wrote: ^ Haven't seen that spelling before, interesting. div

Re: apt-get don't update or upgrade

2008-07-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:20:36PM +0200, Micaela Gallerini [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: 2008/7/7, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have one more thing to try: could you run your original update command with these extra options? -o Debug::pkgAcquire=true -o Debug

Re: apt-get don't update or upgrade

2008-07-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:12:57AM +0200, Micaela Gallerini [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: 2008/7/6, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok, apt isn't trying to use a proxy. Are you able to connect to security.debian.org using a regular Web browser? Just go to http

Re: apt-get don't update or upgrade

2008-07-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:56:18AM +0200, Micaela Gallerini [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: 2008/7/5, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:56:10PM +0200, Micaela Gallerini Do you have an HTTP proxy configured in /etc/apt/apt.conf? Run apt-config dump

Re: Package requirements installation

2008-07-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:21:03AM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: gthread-2.0 This is the tricky one. It's part of libglib2.0-dev. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gthread-2.0.pc libglib2.0-dev: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gthread-2.0.pc Daniel -- To

Re: apt-get don't update or upgrade

2008-07-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 06:56:10PM +0200, Micaela Gallerini [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Impossible obtain http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg Connection failed Impossible obtain http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg Connection failed Impossible

Re: Some interconnectivity

2008-07-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:50:54PM +0300, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Thursday 03 July 2008 12:42:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   I don't know much about goodsync, but you might want to check out Unison for synchronizing directories over machines.  I've had good luck

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:09:18AM +0300, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Not really. See #201842 and #479620. Unfortunately Daniel Burrows still didn't comment on them. Maybe he will show up here? The main reason I haven't touched those bugs is that there are many more

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 06:39:26AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I put the apt-get and aptitude code up side-by-side and I can only see one difference in the conditions they use to determine whether to clean the lists. I don't see why this would matter (surely

Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily cannot find name for group ID 0?

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:38:50PM -0700, David Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Wow, great observation: doing a ls of /etc/group and /etc/passwd fixes it. How incredibly strange: I'd go for jawdroppingly bizarre myself. The only other thing I can think of is that maybe

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:35:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 2008-07-02 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 06:39:26AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I put the apt-get and aptitude code up side-by-side

Re: Some interconnectivity

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:13:38PM +0300, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I installed a nice free fold syncer goodsync to sync some active work folders with copies on the Linux using FTP. Works fine with one interesting caveat: I has filed marked at modified on the linux

Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily cannot find name for group ID 0?

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:06:02AM -0700, David Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [EMAIL PROTECTED] svn]# chroot staging/www id: cannot find name for group ID 0 id: cannot find name for group ID 1 id: cannot find name for group ID 2 id: cannot find name for group ID 3 id: cannot

Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily cannot find name for group ID 0?

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:12:34PM -0700, David Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Basically, I go into staging/www, and it works fine. Then I go into staging/db, and it has the problem. I immediately check the group permissions, and note that now group IDs are being resolved to

Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application

2008-06-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:47:59PM +0200, Martin Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I've got a problem with resizing terminal windows. The information about terminal resizing doesn't always reach the application running inside the terminal. I thought it's the problem with blocked

Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily cannot find name for group ID 0?

2008-06-29 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:42:53AM +0800, paragasu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: can you give the output of cat /etc/group Actually, you don't want to do that since it will erase your group file! I think that the contents of /etc/group and /etc/nsswitch.conf, both when the system is

Re: mocp broken for anyone else?

2008-06-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:57:02AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GR On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:31:01PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: From: i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that devices section gone in Sid

2008-06-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:26:53PM -0500, David Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude show nvidia-glx Note that you don't need root privileges to list information about packages. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert

2008-06-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:31:05PM -0400, Jeff Soules [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have retried using both of the generic drivers. Now I'm getting a fatal server error -- no screens found. Still not working, but at least it's enough to start me on further research. IIRC the no

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:18:19AM +0300, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: 2008/6/26 s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alternatively, one day you may find that your nephew/neice, who you've invited in and told about Linux, has cracked root and blown away your wife's documents.

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +, Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: In the real world, nobody I know has got any sort of GNU/Linux installed and working in a few days. Most have tried and given up

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

2008-06-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:58:14AM -0400, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? I have an iAudio U3 by Cowon. AFAIK all the players in the iAudio line support Ogg (and some other free formats like

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:47:35PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: I suspect that your attempt to upgrade python broke your system. If you are not an expert with Debian, it is best to stick with a single

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